Drink, Now, My Heart

Sonnets Are Safer

by Michael D. Petti

Poplars by Claude Monet
Poplars by Claude Monet

     

    Sonnets are safer, when passions arise,
    Igniting fires of truth in our heart,
    Form takes control and, then, leaves us its prize,
    Rendering our love its very own art.

    Deep poets wander the woods of their mind
    Along unknown paths of unhappy thought;
    Our written words would not be so inclined,
    Satisfied in what need never be sought.

    If I hold your hand and lead you away
    To my own world I will take you each time--
    Should it, then, get dark on roads gone astray,
    You could return by the light of this rhyme.

    Confusion and pain are others' close friend,
    Romantic verse wins your love in the end.


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Cover art & illustrations from the book, Monet : A Retrospective by Charles F. Stuckey (Editor). Publisher: Park Lane/New York, 1986. All poems and text copyright of the author, Michael D. Petti
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